Hertford Buddhist Meditation

22/01/2026

🧘‍♀️2 weeks left of the meditation challenge 🧘‍♀️

How’s it been for you? Has your meditation routine been consistent? Meditation ‘felt better’?

The challenge for us has given us an opportunity to reflect on our practice and help us initiate small but consistent changes that feel possible in our busy lives. The Buddha didn’t teach us to meditate all day, every day, but he did tell his followers that consistent practice, awareness of the breath and integration of loving-kindness can reduce suffering in our lives.

If you haven’t quite found that yet, or joined us yet we begin the last 2 weeks of our challenge next week. Tues 7.15pm, Mill Bridge Rooms.

We’ll greet you there.

09/01/2026

💤 Awakening to Reality 💤

Week one of our meditation challenges opened us to possibility of awakening to reality. We explored this idea through our own lived experiences. Dropping our awareness from our minds and into our bodies; anchoring in the awareness of sensation rather than the stories our minds like to tell us.

Getting in touch with our bodies this way, noticing the breath as a simple but complex, automatic but noticeable, allowed us to maintain connection to each moment.

This, the awareness of each passing in breath and out, was our first week in a nut shell.

The challenge this week is to make a commitment to yourself: meditate on the breath. Start today (if you didn’t start on Tuesday), for as many minutes as you can allow, at the same time and in the same place.

We’ll see you on Tuesday, where we expand into broader awareness and our challenge begins again.

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08/01/2026

Week 1 complete! Such a wonderful first evening of our meditation course. Thinking of joining us? Don't let missing the start put you off - every session is designed so newcomers can jump straight in. We'd love to see you next Tuesday.

04/01/2026

🌿 Six Week Meditation Challenge 🌿

Join us from Tuesday 6th January for a six-week journey into stillness at The Millbridge Rooms, Hertford.

Each week will build upon the last, meditations will support our talks and study cultivating calm, focus, and compassion all integrated with daily life.

This course is open to beginners and experienced meditators, donation-based, and supported by our Sangha who will contribute their experiences each week.

Arrive 7:00–7:15pm and come as often as you can. 🌱

We’ll greet you there.

02/01/2026

Dear Friends,

I hope you've had a restful Christmas break. As we prepare to return to our routines on Monday, I've been reflecting on how easy it is to lose that sense of spaciousness the holidays can bring – those moments when time seems to slow and we catch ourselves simply being rather than constantly doing.

The question I keep coming back to is: how do we hold onto some of that stillness as life speeds up again? This is, in essence, what meditation offers – not an escape from our busy lives, but a way of being more fully present within them.

Six Week Meditation Challenge
With this in mind, I'm pleased to say that our Six Week Meditation Challenge begins this Tuesday, 6th January, at The Millbridge Rooms in Hertford. Just turn up between 7:00 and 7:15 PM – it's open to all, and is on a donation basis.

Over the six weeks we'll explore themes that build upon one another: awakening to reality, cultivating a calm and focused mind, developing loving-kindness (metta), balancing effort with openness, and integrating practice into daily life. We'll be learning two core meditation practices – the Mindfulness of Breathing and the Metta Bhavana – with full instruction given each week.

The "challenge" element is simply an invitation to commit to meditating regularly during the course – whether that's five, six, or seven days a week. There's something powerful about making such a commitment within a supportive group.

If you're new to meditation, this is a perfect time to join us. This first evening in January is always our meeting with the most newcomers, and we'll be teaching from first principles.

And if you've been practising for a while but haven't been along recently, or feel stuck in a rut, the momentum of a group commitment can be wonderfully reinvigorating. It is always good to see our old friends :-)

The course works best if you can come every week, but come when you can – and if you miss a week or two or several, please come back anyway!

As always, there'll be meditation instruction, discussion, friendly faces, and yes – tea and biscuits.

With warmth,
Keith

31/12/2025

🎉 Reflection Prompts for the New Year 🎉

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30/12/2025

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29/12/2025